PPTP article

[JoseyWales]

Still having no luck getting PPTP to work by following your article.

I’ve double-checked all the settings; I’ve opened up port 1723 to point to the right computer.

On checking the log file, the connection is getting through the firewall, the CHAP authentication succeeds, but then it says “Could not determine local IP address”. And then disconnects. (I get the same result with the clients in both Jaguar and Win2K).

I’ve checked by pptp_addresses file, and the first five lines are:

192.168.0.101
192.168.0.102
192.168.0.103
192.168.0.104
192.168.0.105

…which are all valid IP addresses for the network.

The only thing I could think of was the naming of files: in the article, you mention pptp_configuration and pptp_address, but on my system I have pptp_service and pptp_addresses. But I tried renaming these and it made no difference.

Please can someone help?

[Anonymous]

chap-secrets pptp_addresses pptp_service
[g3:/etc/ppp] breed% more pptp_service
#nodetach
10.12.100.1:
pptpmode answer
mppe-stateless
mppe-128
require-chapms-v2
proxyarp

Comment out ‘nodetach’ and put in a new line with your first IP address followed by a colon.
That works for me running 10.2.3.

-bill

[Anonymous]

I have set this up and it worked perfectly first time in OSX. Thats the problem it only worked from OSX client to OSX server. I tried for days to get win 98 or 2000 to connect but it doesn’t.
It seems to not ask for password once connected as the OSX does so cannot get through once dialled in. It connects with the password list and authenticates but can’t see network. I can also ping the internal server from the Win machine

Any ideas on sorting this out.

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